Best shame & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.”

World Children Body Lasts Mother Dies Left Growth Tree Grew Glory Rain Roots Shame Forests Naked Elsewhere Bent Torn Jungle Garments Ripped Coastal

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.”

Should Mind Mother Born Shame Humble Be Good Our Thoughts

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.”

People Want Feels May Persons Different Feelings Wanted Lying Mother Differences Clear Theory Shame Guilt Guilty Ashamed Wrong Lied

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?”

People Country Mother Nations Interest Common Wife Daughter Shame Guilt Partnership Citizenship Peril Liability Bereft Wife And Daughter

Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

“Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.”

Mother Sin Daughter Shame Sensuality

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.”

I Can Use Mother Energy Ability Crime Majors Shame Discrimination Episodes Early Life

Author:Betty Friedan

“I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.”

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.”

Feels Children Mother Fall Inspiring Failing Ideals Shame Our Children Mothers Day Bad Mother

Book:Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.”

Looks Hard Light Lying Mother Rooms Terrible Shame Backgrounds Teeth Classic Falsehood Cursed Uncouth

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mother Term Shame Rejects Uncertain Baggage Disapproval Codependent

Author:Susan Juby

“I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a pretty speech? This is not what I intend to do... I believe in life, that it is sweet and that, for all its occasional bitterness, we-man, that is-are headed toward something better - fulfillment. There is much shame, however, and so much hypocrisy around us and these inhibit our fulfillment as human beings.”

Men Believe Humans Mother Humanity I Believe Sound Human Beings Mankind Sweet Politician Speech Shame I Believe In Fulfillment Hypocrisy Bitterness Preacher Occasional Something Better

Author:F. Sionil José

“My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

Knows Long Hard Enough Faces Moving Mother Five Shame Print Snaps Slap Stains Faded

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”

Home Light Mother Night House Black White Pay Morning Color Months Understood Paid Shame Bills Shoes Coming Home Uniforms Dirt All Night Mama Specks Morning After New Work

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)”

Looks Eye Mother Father Brother Regret Sick Died Shame My Sister Despise Mother Died Father And Brother Look Me In The Eye

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”

Mother Night Black White Pay Color Shame Uniforms Dirt All Night Specks

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic. If a few things offend you, deal with them--fairly. If you’re often offended by things, you’re probably a self-righteous asshole and it’s too bad you weren’t censored yourself--by your mother in an abortion clinic.”

People Ifs Self Mother Girl Deals Shame Saint Abortion Righteous Offended Psychotic Self Righteous Clinic Censored Shame On You

Author:William T. Vollmann

“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”

Feels Science Mother Time Truth Is Daughter Shame Midwife

Author:Johannes Kepler

“The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.”

Writing Mother Purpose Father Shame Mother And Father Purpose Of Writing

Author:J. P. Donleavy

“"I was just like a pathological liar when I was a kid. I think I just wanted to one-up somebody. Somebody would be like, 'Oh, God, my legs hurt.' I'd be like, 'Your legs hurt? I'm getting mine amputated next week.' And that's actually how my mother found out. She came to school and somebody was like, 'God, that's such a shame about Jennifer's legs.' She made me purge. I had to spill out all of my lies. I was like, 'I said that Dad drove a barge, and we were millionaires, and you were pregnant, I had to get my legs amputated, and I spayed cats and dogs on the weekends.' Now I can't lie.”

“I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard I tried to civilize her so as not to have to blush with shame when I take her anywhere. I dressed her in the most stylish Paris models, but Delancey Street sticks out from every inch of her. Whenever she opens her mouth, I'm done for. You fellows had your chance to rise in the world because a man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.”

Source: Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience

“Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprudently accustoming them to live hardly clothed and in making them lose the sense of modesty, you should be ashamed of yourselves and of the harm done the little ones whom heaven entrusted to your care, to be reared in Christian dignity and culture.”

Ifs Should Littles Done Care Christian Mother Culture Heaven Loses Son Daughter Dignity Shame Ill Harm Ashamed Modesty Distress Peril Your Son Son And Daughter If Only You Knew

Author:Pope Pius XII

“Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.”

Self Mother Happened Shame Dragons

Book:All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

Source: All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

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